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The moment it happens

Check new form leads with Hunter and log them in a sheet

Every form lead is checked with Hunter, logged in your sheet with its verification result and company details, and you get an email for the valid ones.

Runs
The moment it happens
Apps
Google Sheets, Hunter.io
AI
Not needed
Access
Hunter key; Sheets write

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: when someone submits my lead form, verify their email with Hunter, look up their name and company, add the lead to my Leads sheet with the result, and email me if the address is valid.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.

Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Website forms collect a mix of real buyers, typos and fake addresses. Sales time spent following up an invalid email is wasted, and a real lead with a mistyped address goes cold before anyone notices.

Small sales teams, agencies and SaaS founders use it to see at a glance which form leads are worth a call, with company details already filled in.

What you get out of it

  • Bad addresses flagged at once

    Each lead's email is checked as it arrives, so invalid and disposable addresses are marked before anyone follows up.

  • Context before the first call

    Name, role and company details from Hunter are added to the row, so you know who you are talking to.

  • Only good leads interrupt you

    You get an email for valid leads only; everything else is quietly logged.

  • A complete lead log

    Every submission is kept in the sheet with its result, useful for spotting spam patterns or form problems.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. When someone submits your form, the details arrive at your automation's link straight away.

  2. Hunter checks whether the email address is real and deliverable.

  3. Hunter also looks up the person's name, role and company where it can.

  4. The lead is added to your sheet with the result, and you get an email if the address is valid.

Before it runs live

  • Connect your Google Sheets account and pick the spreadsheets it may use
  • Connect Hunter.io
  • Paste your automation's link into the other app's webhook settings

What you get

RunsThe moment it happens
Check new form leads with Hunter and log them in a sheetjust nowSucceeded
Email · New leadNew lead: Priya Raman (Acme Logistics) · Operations Director · priya@acme.example · valid

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.
  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

  • Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
  • Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
  • Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
  • Combine it with other Google Sheets and Hunter.io steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.
enrich_and_verify_form_leads_in_a_sheet.pyexample
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_event, credentials, http, notify

SHEET_ID = "your-spreadsheet-id"

@on_event
def handle(event):
    lead = event.json or {}
    email = str(lead.get("email", "")).strip()
    if not email:
        return {"skipped": "no email"}
    key = credentials.secret("HUNTER_API_KEY")
    check = http.get("https://api.hunter.io/v2/email-verifier", params={"email": email, "api_key": key}).json().get("data") or {}
    person = http.get("https://api.hunter.io/v2/people/find", params={"email": email, "api_key": key}).json().get("data") or {}
    name = (person.get("name") or {}).get("fullName") or lead.get("name", "")
    role = (person.get("employment") or {}).get("title") or ""
    company = (person.get("employment") or {}).get("name") or ""
    row = [event.received_at[:16], name, email, check.get("status", "unknown"), role, company, lead.get("message", "")]
    build("sheets", "v4", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False) \
        .spreadsheets().values().append(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="Leads!A:G", valueInputOption="RAW",
                                        body={"values": [row]}).execute()
    if check.get("status") == "valid":
        notify.email_me(f"New lead: {name or email} ({company or 'unknown company'})",
                        f"{name}\n{role} at {company}\n{email}\n\n{lead.get('message', '')}")
    return {"status": check.get("status")}

FAQ

Common questions

What do the verification results mean?
Valid means the mailbox exists. Accept all means the company's server accepts any address, so it cannot be fully checked. Invalid and disposable addresses are best not followed up.
What form tools work with it?
Any form that can send submissions to a web link, such as most form builders and website platforms. The submission needs an email field.
Is anything sent to the lead?
No. The lead is only checked and logged. Any reply comes from you.
What permissions does it need?
Hunter key; Sheets write. Nothing else in your accounts is used.
Does it need AI?
No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.
How many runs does it use?
One run for each event the app sends.
Can I change how it works?
Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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